Saturday, March 31, 2007

Sleepless Until Seattle

First off, those of you who have not received your books yet, don't panic, the drought is over we have enough now to take care of everybody, a nice discount on your next orders to those of you who had to wait a bit longer due to the crazy demand (bring it to my attention and I'll take care of you, personally, I'll cover your shipping charges or something, we'll figure something out.

I expected craziness but this is ridiculous! Again, I can't thank YOU enough for the tremendous support and the hopes you've given me in making this project a success.

I'm writing this from my hotel room in Dearborne, Michigan, my flight to Detroit was delayed for a few hours right out of Newark, NJ and I missed my connecting flight to Seattle, which means I'm going to spend the night here and won't be at the Seattle Emerald City Con until noon on Saturday. As always you're invited to stop by our Brandstudio booth # 715 at the show, Sean "Cheeks" Galloway will be at the show and Wade Schin co-author of "So Now What Do We Do" will be signing and selling his brand spankin' new book alongside Yours B. Truly.

Come say hello and take a look at the books in person, even if you don't buy anything, just come over and bring your sketchbooks, identify yourselves as friends of this blog and I'll be more than happy to desecrate your drawing pads at no cost to you, of course.

I love the book, I will try use your teachings and do them justice. :) As we discussed in Seattle as well let me know about the files and how I can get those.Thanks again, it was great to see you and I have already started to spread the words and "tell my friends" I think I should get a black tshirt with the words "I told my friends...did you" and then the brandstudio press on the back! ;) Cheers!

Hey Alberto, I just sent you an email thanking you for the book. Thank you for sharing the information on your process. I'm sure you still have a few tricks up your sleeves so I am guessing there will be a book 2???

An automatic notice was emailed to everyone in the United States (no tracking for international shipments mailed via surface, sorry) Check the email account you used in your Paypal communication.

If anyone else needs a tracking #, please email me directly at books@brandstudio.com and I'll be happy to provide one for you.

Once again, thank you for bearing with me throughout this first batch of Brandstudio Press books, I'm doing everything in my power to correct the deficiencies. Growing pains in the ass, but we'll get through them, I've already set up a system to make sure all orders are shipped as soon as they are received. We have been waiting on our suppliers and counting on their word to deliver. Everyone should be fully stocked by tomorrow.

As far as I'm concerned, each and every order has been shipped, including the ones received this morning, we're moving full steam ahead.

Any and all questions/complains, regarding the books, DO NOT hesitate to email me personally, I'll take care of it.

Mucho gracias mi amigo (all done WITHOUT an online translator) Thanks, I got the book in the mail today..awesome as expected!!! I’m still working on a drawing to submit. I hope your familia is doing muy bueno. Thanks againMike

I spend most of my time locked in the basement, sketching women while listening to music and wasting my time in cyberspace. I like long walks on the beach, latin american poetry, lime flavored Tostitos™, tongue burritos, Coronas with lime and salt, frozen Margaritas, kalamata olives, comics without text and textbooks without pictures.

Bobby and I are collaborating on an illustration for his new book: 'Ancient Japanese Sketches' Coming in December, in actuality, i...

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.

This is a fault.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.

No artist has ethical sympathies.

An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.

Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at .

Oscar Wilde.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and allows less room for lies.

Le Corbusier.

"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral--immoral from the scientific point of view.""Why?""Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly--that is what each of us is here for.People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it.The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion--these are the two things that govern us. And yet I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream -- I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal-- to something finer, richer than the Hellenic ideal, it may be."